This personality is typically described as " mild-mannered ", perhaps most famously by the opening narration of Max Fleischer's Superman animated theatrical shorts.

In addition to the various merchandise and commercial tie-ins, the strip has spawned several animated television specials, two animated television series, two theatrical feature-length live-action films and three CGI animated direct-to-video movies.

Their first animated appearance was in the theatrical short Donald's Nephews, released April 15, 1938.

The Serengeti was used as inspiration for the animated Disney feature film The Lion King and subsequent theatrical production.

It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and was Warner Bros .' first animated theatrical series.

The comic strip became so successful that it was adapted to many other kinds of popular media, including several television shows, both live-action and animated ; and several feature films, including theatrical and direct-to-video releases.

Outside of an extensive comic book history, the Swamp Thing property has inspired two theatrical films, a live-action television series, and a five-part animated series, among other media.

The conventions of blackface also lived on unmodified at least into the 1950s in animated theatrical cartoons.

Altogether, 1, 004 animated theatrical shorts alone were released under the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies banners from the 1930s through the 1960s.

Created as a parody of Superman, he first appeared in 1942 in a theatrical animated short titled The Mouse of Tomorrow.

Other favorably remembered Filmation series included a 16-part animated serial of Flash Gordon, originally intended as a movie for theatrical release, Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All.

The Golden Age of US animation is a period in the United States animation history that began with the advent of sound cartoons in 1928 and continued into the early 1960s when theatrical animated shorts slowly began losing to the new medium of television animation.

George Pal was the only stop-motion animator to produce a series of stop-motion animated cartoons for theatrical release, the Puppetoon series for Paramount, some of which were animated by Ray Harryhausen.

The version of Olive Oyl most widely familiar is the version from the theatrical animated cartoons, first created by Fleischer Studios, and then produced by Famous Studios.

Fleischer Studios adapted him the next year ( 1933 ), to be the recurring villain in their theatrical Popeye animated cartoon series.

* List of Disney theatrical animated features for the animated Disney films released by Walt Disney Pictures

** The DVD also presents the owner with the ability to play the theatrical cut of the film with the animated scene as if it were part of the feature.

The animated series lasted 11 years and more than 300 animated Mutt and Jeff shorts were released, making it the longest continuing theatrical animated movie serial and second longest to Krazy Kat.

The first 2 seasons of The Batman animated series as well as its spin-off film The Batman vs Dracula take various inspiration from Batman: Year One, including:

These same books are the basis for a made-for-TV animated film and the Spanish-animated series The World of David the Gnome ( as well as the spin-off Wisdom of the Gnomes ).

At the end of the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, all licenses for Star Trek spin-off fiction were renegotiated and the animated series was essentially " decanonized " by Gene Roddenberry's office.

* R2-D2 appears in the 2008 animated film Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and the spin-off series of the same name, which provide a canonical bridge between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith.

In the animated Nickelodeon movie, TV show and TV spin-off of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, there was a character named Sheen Estevez, which is Sheen's original last name – Estévez – and working last name, Sheen.

Daria is a spin-off of Mike Judge's animated Beavis and Butt-head series, in which Daria appeared as a recurring character.

2008 saw the debut of Phineas and Ferb, the first original animated series to be broadcast in HD, and The Suite Life of Zack & Cody spin-off, The Suite Life on Deck, along with Disney Channel Original Movies such as Camp Rock, Minutemen and The Cheetah Girls: One World.

A short-lived animated series spin-off aired on NBC in 1989.

It's Punky Brewster !, an animated spin-off with the original cast appeared on NBC on Saturday mornings.

An animated children's TV series spin-off, Toxic Crusaders, featured Toxie as the leader of a team of mutated superheroes who fought against evil alien polluters.

MTV produced several successful animated series especially for its young adult audience, including Liquid Television, The Brothers Grunt, Æon Flux, Beavis and Butt-head ( and its spin-off Daria ), and Celebrity Deathmatch.

It spawns a record eight spin-off series ( five live-action, three animated ).

Happy Days, itself a spin-off from Love, American Style, spun off five different series, not including two animated spin-offs: Laverne & Shirley, Blansky's Beauties, Mork & Mindy, Out of the Blue, and Joanie Loves Chachi.

The show has been sold in 245 territories worldwide, and has inspired an animated cartoon spin-off and two feature films.

During the run of the main show, an animated spin-off called Laverne & Shirley in the Army began airing on Saturday mornings.

She is most famous in her infant form on the animated TV show The Flintstones, but has also appeared at various other ages, including as a teenager on the early 1970s spin-off The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show and as an adult in three made-for-television movies.

The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series spin-off of The Flintstones produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, which ran for 16 half-hour episodes from September 11, 1971, to September 2, 1972, and four 8-minute episodes ( as part of The Flintstone Comedy Hour ) from September 9, 1972, to September 1, 1973, on CBS.

* Little Shop, a 1991 animated TV series spin-off from the 1986 film created by Frank Oz

In the animated spin-off film Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, a young Bruce Wayne and his girlfriend attend the Gotham World's Fair, dubbed " The World of Tomorrow " and full of 1930s ' style architecture.

X-Men Adventures was a comic book spin-off of the animated series.

The Mask also changes into his wolf-like form on occasion in the spin-off animated series of the same name, particularly in the animated crossover featuring Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.

* Star Wars: The Clone Wars, 2008 animated film, a spin-off in the Star Wars saga.

is a 1986 animated fantasy-parody film that had several sequels and a spin-off.